KEVIN THEAKSTON is Reader in Government at University of Leeds. He is the author of Leadership in Whitehall , Junior Ministers in British Government , The Labour Party and Whitehall and The Civil Service since 1945 .

• List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Biographical Approach to Public Administration: Potential, Purpose and Problems; K.Theakston Excellence in Administrative Leadership: An Examination of Six Federal Execucrats; N.M.Riccucci Three Giants of the Inter-war Higher Civil Service: Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Horace Wilson; G.K.Fry Innovators at 10 Downing Street; J.Burnham & G.W.Jones The Conservatives, New Labour and Whitehall: A Biographical Examination of the Political Flexibility of the Mandarin Cadre; D.Richards Chief Executives and Leadership in a Local Authority: A Fundamental Antithesis ; K.Isaac-Henry Lord Cockfield: A European Commissioner as a Political Entrepreneur; C.Lord Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: The Contribution to Health and Social Care Policymaking of Sir Roy Griffiths 1982-1992; S.Harrison & G.Wistow Executive Agency Chief Executives: Their Leadership Values; E.Mallon Index

KEVIN THEAKSTON is Reader in Government at University of Leeds. He is the author of Leadership in Whitehall , Junior Ministers in British Government , The Labour Party and Whitehall and The Civil Service since 1945 .

• List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Biographical Approach to Public Administration: Potential, Purpose and Problems; K.Theakston Excellence in Administrative Leadership: An Examination of Six Federal Execucrats; N.M.Riccucci Three Giants of the Inter-war Higher Civil Service: Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Horace Wilson; G.K.Fry Innovators at 10 Downing Street; J.Burnham & G.W.Jones The Conservatives, New Labour and Whitehall: A Biographical Examination of the Political Flexibility of the Mandarin Cadre; D.Richards Chief Executives and Leadership in a Local Authority: A Fundamental Antithesis ; K.Isaac-Henry Lord Cockfield: A European Commissioner as a Political Entrepreneur; C.Lord Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: The Contribution to Health and Social Care Policymaking of Sir Roy Griffiths 1982-1992; S.Harrison & G.Wistow Executive Agency Chief Executives: Their Leadership Values; E.Mallon Index

KEVIN THEAKSTON is Reader in Government at University of Leeds. He is the author of Leadership in Whitehall , Junior Ministers in British Government , The Labour Party and Whitehall and The Civil Service since 1945 .

• List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Biographical Approach to Public Administration: Potential, Purpose and Problems; K.Theakston Excellence in Administrative Leadership: An Examination of Six Federal Execucrats; N.M.Riccucci Three Giants of the Inter-war Higher Civil Service: Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Horace Wilson; G.K.Fry Innovators at 10 Downing Street; J.Burnham & G.W.Jones The Conservatives, New Labour and Whitehall: A Biographical Examination of the Political Flexibility of the Mandarin Cadre; D.Richards Chief Executives and Leadership in a Local Authority: A Fundamental Antithesis ; K.Isaac-Henry Lord Cockfield: A European Commissioner as a Political Entrepreneur; C.Lord Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: The Contribution to Health and Social Care Policymaking of Sir Roy Griffiths 1982-1992; S.Harrison & G.Wistow Executive Agency Chief Executives: Their Leadership Values; E.Mallon Index